What are some things to do after school with 5 and 7 year old girls?

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I am looking for things to do in the afternoons with my kids to keep them occupied and give us family time. Now that winter is setting in and it's too cold to play outside, I need some indoor ideas that are cheap and easy to accomplish. I also have a 15 month old son to keep busy. He's not walking yet so that will make a difference in what I can do. All ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.

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-Arts and Crafts: coloring, cutting, glueing, painting, sponging, model clay etc. I've painted picture frames, mirrors, boxes etc with my kids
-Puppets/Puppet show: decorate paper bags or cut out paper and glue to popsicle sticks. Get a big box, cut a square hole and put on a show.
-Paper/Pillow Dolls: Print out paper dolls and glue googly eyes, string for hair and paper/fabric out for clothes. Or get small pillows and decorate it to be a doll.
-Iron on T-shirts: They can draw pictures on special paper and you can then iron it onto t-shirts. Or get designer pens to just draw onto the t-shirt.
-Collages & Scrap Books: get out pictures of them (or make copies) and let them cut them out and paste them onto paper.
-Beading: necklaces, braclets
-Lanyard
-Baking/cooking cookies, brownies, chocolate lolipops, ricecrispy treats, maybe help you with dinner
-board games
-puzzles. My boys who are around the age of your girls LOVE 3D puzzles
-Shaving Cream Writing: put some shaving cream on a cookie cutter and practice writing letters, numbers, drawing, tic-tac-toe

Best Wishes =]

Graphic designers please help me D:?

Sorry for my bad english, I just want to know which subjects do u take for being graphic designers.
Because i like almost every subject except makin models whit real materials. In Usa do u have to make models? D:?
and how is study graphic design in there? do u need to expend a lot of money in materials?
Are community college bad?

Where I live now its awful I only want to work on comics, games or movies, but in Chile there ain't many jobs about i want :(

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Good courses are Marketing, Figure Drawing, Communications, Creative Writing, Illustration, 3D design, sculpture and many more drawing classes. As a Graphic Designer you need to be able to come up with things that do not exist already but can serve a practical purpose. This one thing I struggled to do when I was studying graphic design. I did not have enough creativity to compete with the others.

For Comics, you need strong drawing skills.

For games, you need to go to a school that specializes in Game Design, because in my Graphuc Design program we mostly did stationary, posters, newsletters, brochures, and a little bit of Web Design. Definetly no training to for Game Design or Movies.

For movies, go to school that specializes in animation.

If you were to Design shopping bags, brochures, envelopes, or boxes, yes youle would need to make atleast a minature model from some materials to explain to your professor how it works or how practical it is to use.

Graphic Design could be quite expensive. Buying Computers, buying new program updates every year, It's expensive to repair Macs, learn to repair yourself. Printing samples can be spensive.

All colleges are not created equal.

Graphic Designers also have to work under strict deadlines and be expected to produce a perfect product they may have to be modified multiple times before being accepted. Graphic Design is for those who are extremely creative and have tough skin. Your work will be subject to criticism no matter how great you think it is.

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